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I'm currently working on the first boss. The first step was figuring out Godot's IK system. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a stretch option out of the box, so I tacked a script onto the skeleton to allow for that.

Here's an image of some of the assets for the boss fight that I made a while ago.

I've been brainstorming local co-op implementation. I need to add much needed controller support. Sera's current controls all trace back to a single node in the scene tree. She's entirely controlled by the right mouse button, and in a coop game the Sera player would default to the controller. I think players should have a choice of an extremely simplistic control scheme (point and click) like in singleplayer (this one will show up first since it's a fairly simple tweak) or more fine grained control (joystick directly controlling movement + buttons) to allow for different preferences. 

I've also been thinking of further reducing required dialogue, even in the intro, so players can get to the action/gameplay faster. Maybe throwing players into a fight immediately so people can get a feel for the combat up front.

Thanks! It is a single player game where you can control both characters at the same time. Now that you've mentioned that though, I really like the idea of local co-op.

Link to demo which covers the first level (no boss yet): https://potatoptarmigan.itch.io/alawt

I'm developing an action horror game where almost everything even the combat, relies on both characters. The combat is in real time, with a simple control scheme and a slowdown function to allow players to easily control both characters at once.

Some background info:

Story summary: An unknown event merges strange beings and objects from other dimensions into a biology lab. The story follows a slowly mutating security guard named Sera and a junior scientist, Lea in their attempt to escape. To make matters worse, a mysterious entity has latched onto the remainders of Sera's left arm. While it's given her a boost to healing as well as strength, there are some yet to be known side effects.

Combat: There are different attack effects when attacking with Lea's variety of weapons. For example, one specific weapon allows Sera to pull off a fast kill. Sera's attacks with her sword arm weaken enemies, resulting in them taking more damage from bullets. Unfortunately, Sera mutates per hit so you can't just hang back and let her do all the work. I like flashy action combos in my action games, so I brought some of that to this game. 

Puzzles: Some of them require the usage of both characters in possibly unexpected ways. 

Any feedback is heavily appreciated! At one point I'll probably cover design considerations since there were a lot of things I had to think about when designing the controls. In the past I received some concerns (from people who hadn't played the game) that a dual character game would be hard to control or overwhelming. I'm currently working on the boss for the first level.

Thanks! I'm glad that you enjoyed it! (and that you didn't experience any issues this time)

The voice acting and art was really good and I also liked how you used the role of the player.

I'm hoping to see more of this one day! Also I've really enjoyed all your horror yuri vns.

Hey thanks for letting me know. 

I uploaded another version of the game - if you download practiceRoundOpenGL, it should use something other than Vulkan. It won't look like the vulkan one unfortunately but hopefully it'll work for you. 

If your video card or cpu is very old, it would not support certain vulkan versions which is why you're getting the error. I would keep the window on the game fairly small, there is no graphics scaling available for this version so it'll be much more intensive on your computer if you make the window too large.

You can also try updating your driver following steps like this: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/update-drivers-manually-in-windows-e...

Let me know if you have any other questions.

I wasn't able to recreate this even after disabling my graphics card and asking my teammates, so the best I could do was google the issue and add in some possible fixes for the freezing. The new update has options to adjust vsync and fullscreen/windows in hopes that might help with the issue as well.

Thanks for the comment! Could you let me know what was confusing about them? I admit they were kind of experimental compared to the usual for these types of games.

Hi, thanks for the comment! I'll have to look into that-I've had some optimization problems before but I guess I have to work more at it.  Would you mind giving me the rest of your computer specs?

Ah ok.  The current project I have has yuri but is not (solely) a visual novel.

You can see the current gameplay at the bottom of this post:  https://lettuceleafdev.blogspot.com/2023/09/remaking-home-level-in-godot-4.html 

If you're interested you can message me on Discord.  My id is lettuce#2412.

Hello! Do you have a team yet? Also are you interested in things other than yuri visual novels?